Year-Round Early Childhood Themes, eBook: 12 Fun Theme-Based Activity UnitsThe thematic units in this valuable resource provide a variety of hands-on activities, fingerplays, and songs, as well as family letters and many timesaving reproducibles. Children will enjoy exploring these twelve thematic units: All About Me, Animals, Community Helpers, Dinosaurs, Fall, Family, Five Senses, Friends, Insects, Nursery Rhymes, Shapes and Colors, and Transportation. |
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... Children can discuss a book, tell a story, or help write a group story. A read-aloud activity idea is also provided. Math Activities—This section features a variety of activities with the different skills listed at the beginning of each ...
... Children can discuss a book, tell a story, or help write a group story. A read-aloud activity idea is also provided. Math Activities—This section features a variety of activities with the different skills listed at the beginning of each ...
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... child as a baby. If possible, send 8" x 10" (20 cm x 25 cm) photographs. Classroom Activities Children will participate in the following activities: • Dancing, coloring, and painting to different types of music. • Talking about how each ...
... child as a baby. If possible, send 8" x 10" (20 cm x 25 cm) photographs. Classroom Activities Children will participate in the following activities: • Dancing, coloring, and painting to different types of music. • Talking about how each ...
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... children to tell a story. These ideas can be discussed and then used to write group stories for children to illustrate. 1. Ask children questions about moods (e.g., What makes you happy? What makes you sad? What makes you grouchy?), and ...
... children to tell a story. These ideas can be discussed and then used to write group stories for children to illustrate. 1. Ask children questions about moods (e.g., What makes you happy? What makes you sad? What makes you grouchy?), and ...
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... children in the story. Draw a box around each letter in each name. Invite children to help you count the number of ... Tell children to place their paper in their square. Invite children to count and compare the number of papers in each ...
... children in the story. Draw a box around each letter in each name. Invite children to help you count the number of ... Tell children to place their paper in their square. Invite children to count and compare the number of papers in each ...
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... children to choose a piece of colored construction paper to make a flower. Draw three outlines of each child's hands ... Tell children that this is the “stem” of their flower. Staple each crepe-paper stem along the wall, and add the ...
... children to choose a piece of colored construction paper to make a flower. Draw three outlines of each child's hands ... Tell children that this is the “stem” of their flower. Staple each crepe-paper stem along the wall, and add the ...
Contents
Dinosaurs | 107 |
Fall | 146 |
Family | 180 |
Five Senses | 212 |
Friends | 239 |
Nursery Rhymes | 309 |
Shapes and Colors | 344 |
Transportation | 378 |
Appendix | 409 |
Common terms and phrases
alphabet cards animals Apatosaurus apple Art Recipes Ask children assorted colors bowl brown butcher paper Butterfly card stock chart paper child’s name circle class set classroom community helpers construction paper cookie cutters Copy a class craft stick create Directions Give Directions Have children Directions Invite children Directions Show children Encourage children Eric Carle Explain to children feel find fingers five fingers floor fly food coloring friends Give each child glue Preparation graham crackers Greenwillow Humpty Dumpty Ingredients insects ladybug leaf leaves letter Lois Ehlert matching Materials mixing spoon name strip nursery rhymes paint pads paintbrushes pair paper plates paper Preparation pasta peanut butter pizza play dough Preparation Cut Preparation none Directions puzzle Recommended Read-Alouds reproducible sentence strip shape slices song spider spoon Stegosaurus story Sung tape Tell children Triceratops tune Tyrannosaurus rex Write each child’s yellow
Popular passages
Page 336 - SIMPLE Simon met a pieman Going to the fair; Says Simple Simon to the pieman, "Let me taste your ware." Says the pieman to Simple Simon, "Show me first your penny"; Says Simple Simon to the pieman. "Indeed I have not any.
Page 330 - BAA BAA, BLACK SHEEP. BAA Baa, Black Sheep, Have you any wool ? Yes, Sir, yes, Sir, three bags full.
Page 334 - OLD Mother Hubbard Went to the cupboard, To get her poor dog a bone: But when she got there The cupboard was bare, And so the poor dog had none.
Page 335 - The Queen of Hearts She made some tarts, All on a summer's day; The Knave of Hearts He stole those tarts, And took them clean away. The King of Hearts Called for the tarts, And beat the Knave full sore; The Knave of Hearts Brought back the tarts, And vowed he'd steal no more.
Page 334 - One, two, Buckle my shoe; Three, four, Shut the door; Five, six, Pick up sticks; Seven, eight, Lay them straight; Nine, ten, A good fat hen; Eleven, twelve, Who will delve?
Page 93 - This Is the Way We Row a Boat" sung to the tune of "Here We Go 'Round the Mulberry Bush" This is the way we row a boat, Row a boat, row a boat.
Page 333 - MARY HAD A LITTLE LAMB Mary had a little lamb, Its fleece was white as snow, And everywhere that Mary went, The lamb was sure to go.
Page 334 - Oh, do you know the muffin man, The muffin man, the muffin man; Oh, do you know the muffin man That lives in Drury Lane?